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things to remember about elections that everything is local. the way this storm will affect this will be decided by local officials. for example, on september 1, 2001, there were supposed to be lecks. in new york city they postponed the election and changed the way it would result. in new haven where i live, they had the election and thus a progressive candidate who had a chance of winning lost the possibility of winning because nobody came to vote because the election was held in the middle of a national disaster. so i'm really worried about how this will play out. and i sure hope people in connecticut vote for chris murphy because we don't need the queen of wrestle mania running our state or national elections, -- you know what i mean. host: since you brought up new york let's look at this piece in the wall street journal. host: the headline says -- fox news also looks at how hurricane sandy could increase the congressional workload. he writes this on the fox news blog -- if this hurricane is as bad as predicted congress could tackle a spendi
things to remember about elections that everything is local. the way this storm will affect this will be decided by local officials. for example, on september 1, 2001, there were supposed to be lecks. in new york city they postponed the election and changed the way it would result. in new haven where i live, they had the election and thus a progressive candidate who had a chance of winning lost the possibility of winning because nobody came to vote because the election was held in the middle of...
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we're localizing even more vehicles. so this is a long-term investment and foresight that our executive management has. this is not some seasonal reaction. host: alicia in atlanta, georgia. we've got this on facebook, facebook.com/cspan. paul martin writes -- host: that's paul martin on our facebook page. back to the phones. reggie in sayerville, new jersey. he's a democrat, and he's optimistic. why is that, reggie? caller: i'm optimistic. i believe that despite all the ok kells that will the republican party has placed before barack obama, he is going to revive this economy. i also believe that you need to take a look at the worldwide economy, and you can understand how much better america is doing. that's the product of strategy and intelligent implication that the barack obama administration has. when i listen to these republicans, they're despicable. they practice all types of obstacles in front of this man. they lie. romney is a serial liar. host: let's go back to the economy. talk to me about the comparisons in you
we're localizing even more vehicles. so this is a long-term investment and foresight that our executive management has. this is not some seasonal reaction. host: alicia in atlanta, georgia. we've got this on facebook, facebook.com/cspan. paul martin writes -- host: that's paul martin on our facebook page. back to the phones. reggie in sayerville, new jersey. he's a democrat, and he's optimistic. why is that, reggie? caller: i'm optimistic. i believe that despite all the ok kells that will the...
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this is what we have seen in some people's local communities. some of the young people don't have those opportunities and are looking in ways they can address the challenges in their communities. host: a look at the view of the vote and how balanced out in campaign 2008 -- guest: young people are a diverse population. 32% of 18-29 years old voted for senator mccain and this is something we need to factor in when speaking out to young people. host: abby is from tufts university. the website is civicyouth.org. good morning caller:. i want to give thanks to seize them for doing what you all do. i disagree with del lady -- with a lady. i believe the youth of boat -- vote means we are fed up with what is going on. we will not just talk about it. when need to start being americans again and not republicans or democrats. there is nothing we cannot accomplish. host: al engaged are you? do you talk to your friends about their vote? caller: i am volunteering my time. i'm doing a whole lot more compared to other young folks. if you want to make an impact,
this is what we have seen in some people's local communities. some of the young people don't have those opportunities and are looking in ways they can address the challenges in their communities. host: a look at the view of the vote and how balanced out in campaign 2008 -- guest: young people are a diverse population. 32% of 18-29 years old voted for senator mccain and this is something we need to factor in when speaking out to young people. host: abby is from tufts university. the website is...
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the local issues. the old m.t.a., the clearances, the roads, and the grading of the railroad is much lower because it originally was not a passenger idea. it was a freight idea. most of the railroads came up the, riverbeds where the factories were. because they could dump their fluids. they could get the water and pollute the river. transportation wise is like two different countries. guest: the question about reliability and the frequency of some facilities era -- and services. i do not know whether you are talking about particularly a local system. connecticut transit is much much too fragmented. i'm sorry to say that when i was commissioner did not try harder to consolidate the system at, as they do in new jersey, so you essentially have a single provider. it helps to keep the facilities open, like you mentioned. in those eastern states, in many ways they were passenger rail in many cases. not all, by any means. there was a mix of passenger and freight. if you use metro-north to go into new york, so
the local issues. the old m.t.a., the clearances, the roads, and the grading of the railroad is much lower because it originally was not a passenger idea. it was a freight idea. most of the railroads came up the, riverbeds where the factories were. because they could dump their fluids. they could get the water and pollute the river. transportation wise is like two different countries. guest: the question about reliability and the frequency of some facilities era -- and services. i do not know...
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we have part -- we have had local elections. when she did the voting rolls this year, she noticed that she had mark several of the people who had died a small town. she sent it in that these people are deceived and can be taken off the rolls. the next cycle there were still on there. i met in this a problem across the nation. what is the back of the doubt about this? a key you've identified problem. states don't have tools adequate to be able to identify people who died. it is difficult to match john doe from the voter list to a john doe from a death list. even if the magic name and birthday, that is still not sufficient. there is a more significant challenge in smaller areas where you actually know the people. in urban areas with large populations, l.a. county runs elections for the county and they are larger than all but seven states. it would be impossible to know this information so the states in a better tool to match it data much more confidently across multiple sources. they will get much higher quality data when someone
we have part -- we have had local elections. when she did the voting rolls this year, she noticed that she had mark several of the people who had died a small town. she sent it in that these people are deceived and can be taken off the rolls. the next cycle there were still on there. i met in this a problem across the nation. what is the back of the doubt about this? a key you've identified problem. states don't have tools adequate to be able to identify people who died. it is difficult to...
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guest: and even some local one. host: i want to read this e- mail. guest: she is my kind of gal. host: can you speak to that tie? andt: i'm close to her age i think the baby boomer women do feel close to this. their work dispensing birth control out of the back of the infirmary when i went to college. we remember these issues in a personal way. planned parenthood has been around for 99 years. family planning and help with fertility, mammogram screening, prevented screening. this is a visceral issue for the baby boomer women. host: is president obama targeting of that female voters specifically? guest: he is. he is talking about how mitt romney reaffirmed that position wants to do away with planned parenthood. planned parenthood's favorability is 69% right now, it is more popular than the president or his challenger. host: favoring the democrats in 1992. guest: that is right. catholic women have favorable attitudes towards planned parenthood. most catholic women sitting in mass -- host: let's go next to nancy in nevada. caller: good morning. .'m voting for mitt romney i have said
guest: and even some local one. host: i want to read this e- mail. guest: she is my kind of gal. host: can you speak to that tie? andt: i'm close to her age i think the baby boomer women do feel close to this. their work dispensing birth control out of the back of the infirmary when i went to college. we remember these issues in a personal way. planned parenthood has been around for 99 years. family planning and help with fertility, mammogram screening, prevented screening. this is a visceral...
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watch and engage with live tweets from local reporters and other viewers. >> "washington journal" continues. host: joining us here is the author of "mismatch." welcome. joining us from new york for this discussion, courtney bowie. she is with the aclu. let me start with you. the supreme court heard a case this week dealing with affirmative action. can you give a synopsis of what happened? guest: the case pending before the accord was brought by a young lady named abigail fisher. her claim was that the university use of race in the admissions process violated her rights. our position is that of many other organizations and individuals. the university of texas has a fair process in place that expand opportunities for all people and it should be allowed to consider additional factors in addition to test scores in order to create a divorce learning environment that benefits all students -- a divorce learning environment that benefits all students. we made some technical arguments about the standard of review that was at issue, but the crux of it was that we wanted the fifth circuit's holding to
watch and engage with live tweets from local reporters and other viewers. >> "washington journal" continues. host: joining us here is the author of "mismatch." welcome. joining us from new york for this discussion, courtney bowie. she is with the aclu. let me start with you. the supreme court heard a case this week dealing with affirmative action. can you give a synopsis of what happened? guest: the case pending before the accord was brought by a young lady named...
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or why not go to the local wal- mart and get whatever drug i want to put in my body? how come everybody else does not get to have that privilege over their own body? host: anita on our support president obama line in yazoo, mississippi. caller: good morning. i stopped the debate was wonderful. vice president biden did a very good job against paul ryan. the abortion topic, with a woman were raped or had a disability or sickness, why should they not make a decision if they want to give life or end life? that's a woman's decision. obama has done a wonderful job. if they allow obama and other four-year term, i'm sure he can straighten out everything. everybody is pushing against obama about what's going on. they did not look at what the last president set up for him. it took him a full your years to get in there and will take another four years to get it straightened out. it everybody should lay off president obama and give him the right to they have given all other presidents to do things fairly. as far as welfare and food stamps, there's a lot of people that need that.
or why not go to the local wal- mart and get whatever drug i want to put in my body? how come everybody else does not get to have that privilege over their own body? host: anita on our support president obama line in yazoo, mississippi. caller: good morning. i stopped the debate was wonderful. vice president biden did a very good job against paul ryan. the abortion topic, with a woman were raped or had a disability or sickness, why should they not make a decision if they want to give life or...
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sales, property, state and local, federal. in the most recent year we have numbers for come up 47% of people did not pay federal income taxes, but over half of them paid payroll taxes. if you look at the people who did not pay either federal income or payroll, that's only 18% of the population. 60% of those people are elderly. we give them a break by not taxing their social security and come unless they have a lot of other income as well. if you look at the tax system as a whole, it's basically flat. people in the state of washington, the bottom 20% a 17% while the top only pays about 2%. the federal income-tax system barely makes up for how regressive other types are. everyone pays taxes. host: on twitter -- did you would like to share your opinion, you can write to @cspanwj. let's look at more details from president obama's plan for individual taxes. he would keep tax rates for people making less than $250,000 for the way they are. raise the top income bracket to 36% and 36.9%. raise taxes on dividends. household over $1 mil
sales, property, state and local, federal. in the most recent year we have numbers for come up 47% of people did not pay federal income taxes, but over half of them paid payroll taxes. if you look at the people who did not pay either federal income or payroll, that's only 18% of the population. 60% of those people are elderly. we give them a break by not taxing their social security and come unless they have a lot of other income as well. if you look at the tax system as a whole, it's basically...
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you might read it on your local paper which in your local paper. she has worked in washington for the last six years. we're talking about the building fiscal cliff and the gang of eight. nothing is expected to happen before the election. realistically, how much traction can leaders get in a lame duck congress? guest: it is a good point, and something that might get best add a lot of people look at congress and say why can they not get this -- might get missed, and a lot of people look to congress and say why can they not get this done? leadership plays a role. we talked about the role of the person in the white house. both the leaders of the house and senate, nancy pelosi, senate majority leader harry reid, those people need to want to make a deal. as much as the game of six or eight might come up with a framework it is difficult for those individual senators or, even as a group, to move the rest of congress until the leaders give the green light. i think that will take weeks. that will not be an easy thing to happen, even if taken up with a framew
you might read it on your local paper which in your local paper. she has worked in washington for the last six years. we're talking about the building fiscal cliff and the gang of eight. nothing is expected to happen before the election. realistically, how much traction can leaders get in a lame duck congress? guest: it is a good point, and something that might get best add a lot of people look at congress and say why can they not get this -- might get missed, and a lot of people look to...
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as far as gopac is concerned, we support state and local candidates. we're targeting state and local candidates in swing districts to turn out the votes from the bottom up, not the top down. host: explain that a little bit more. guest: we support the next generation of republicans, and these are republicans running primarily at the state and legislative level. we look for individuals that have leadership capabilities who someday might be speaker of the house or who would run for congress or senate sunday. those of the people we try to target. but this year in the presidential environment, we're working hard to have those candidates run strong campaigns. there's only so much that a presidential campaign can do in terms of contacting households across the country. if you have a strong legislative candidate -- state, said that, whatever -- they're the ones who knock on the doors. -- state, senate, whatever -- they are the ones who knock on the doors. host: raising money for these candidates? guest: yes, we raise money, we give them services, we train them
as far as gopac is concerned, we support state and local candidates. we're targeting state and local candidates in swing districts to turn out the votes from the bottom up, not the top down. host: explain that a little bit more. guest: we support the next generation of republicans, and these are republicans running primarily at the state and legislative level. we look for individuals that have leadership capabilities who someday might be speaker of the house or who would run for congress or...
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who have voted early so far were people who are very strong partisans and have registered with their local party. in ohio, we have data where we know that people have voted in a primary or not. by and large, people who were voting in ohio were people who have voted in primaries. these are people who are high propensity voters. they want to be assured of good they are voting for and have made up their minds and a vote in every election and a cast their ballots. that is true on both sides. as we get into this next week, we are already starting to see the numbers of people who are not registered with political parties, who don't vote in every election, and we see those people rise in numbers as we get closer to election day. we have seen a pattern in every election. this is not really crunch time. these are people who are low propensity voters and more persuade a bowl. --persuadable. obama has a greater amount of people to go after but mitt romney cannot ignore these people either. these are lower information voters and not people following the elections as closely. as many of the cspan voter
who have voted early so far were people who are very strong partisans and have registered with their local party. in ohio, we have data where we know that people have voted in a primary or not. by and large, people who were voting in ohio were people who have voted in primaries. these are people who are high propensity voters. they want to be assured of good they are voting for and have made up their minds and a vote in every election and a cast their ballots. that is true on both sides. as we...
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and david, i would guess but some of the voted democrat locally for your local elections. that is an important demographic. the president does well among -- north of the 1-4 corridor, a lot of world democrats, who historically vote republican, and vote more democrat down the ticket. that is important for the president. he can hold his own against th them he will win the debate. host: here is a tweet, do we want to reelect obama only to impeach and remove him for the benghazi cover-up? there's news this morning there were official e-mails to the white house saying there was a militant group responsible for that attack. do you think displays in the state of florida? guest: not really. first of all, the president did extremely well. i would be the first to admit he did not do very well in the first debate. is done well in the second two. what you saw in the debate on foreign policy was the ever- changing mitt romney, the etch a sketch mitt romney, changing. two weeks prior he said -- i thought he said he likes the timeline in afghanistan and we have to get out quickly. at the
and david, i would guess but some of the voted democrat locally for your local elections. that is an important demographic. the president does well among -- north of the 1-4 corridor, a lot of world democrats, who historically vote republican, and vote more democrat down the ticket. that is important for the president. he can hold his own against th them he will win the debate. host: here is a tweet, do we want to reelect obama only to impeach and remove him for the benghazi cover-up? there's...
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for us as the 26th district, strickland is tea party republican, a recent endorsement in one of the local papers of jerry brown pointed out. he's right in line with grover norquist. this is a real litmus test of the right wing republican agenda facing a moderate democrat who's going to stand up for a woman's right to choose, a balanced approach to the budget. it's a really marquee race for us there. host: haste, nebraska, rita go ahead. caller: thank you for taking my call. i watch c-span quite a bit. i appreciate your program because it does give a person a lot of insight to what's going on in the government world. hairlike to know is -- what i like to know is the two talkers on today -- when i first started watching, it seems they were together on the same things, friendly. then as the conversation gets on, the republican guy seem to be more defensive and aggressive. what i would like to know if you guys and the senators in the house can work together as one group for the world. for the people, who they are elected for. why can't they keep that in their mind and work for the best welfar
for us as the 26th district, strickland is tea party republican, a recent endorsement in one of the local papers of jerry brown pointed out. he's right in line with grover norquist. this is a real litmus test of the right wing republican agenda facing a moderate democrat who's going to stand up for a woman's right to choose, a balanced approach to the budget. it's a really marquee race for us there. host: haste, nebraska, rita go ahead. caller: thank you for taking my call. i watch c-span quite...